Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-22
General Veps.
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The Louisiana lottery is seeking to get
a foothold in Nova Scotia, its original
charter being about to expire.
Hot weather and no rain for six weeks
is causing apprehension in Illinois and
Indiana for the safety of the crops.
The President has nominated Edward
A. Moseley of Newburyport, Mass, for
secretary of the interstate COM
mission.
Henry A. Carew of New York, an under
graduate of Harvard, has given that in
stitution S25, 1000 toward the erection of a
building for "A swimming bath.
Mrs. Sarah +. Howe, who was connect
ed with the notorious 'woman's bank"
swindle, has a%bscOnded from Boston with
$4,000 of the depositors' money.
The New York East conference, sitting
at Mt. Vernon, n. y, have defeated a
report pledging the conference to the
prohibition party by a vote of l07 to 80.
Joseph Burch, a w~ell-to-do-farmer liv-
ing six miles west of Lima. o., killed his
sick wife with a hammer and then went
to the woods near by, twisted some bark
into a moose and hanged himself.
Chief Justice David X. Cartier of the
supreme court of the District of Column
bia died at his home III Washington Sat
urday evening in his 18th year. The i'm
mediate cause was cancer of the stomach.
DR.. Brull of Dodgeville, Wis, who was
recently arrested on the charge of poison
ing his wife to secure the $4,000 insur-
ance on her life, died in prisonat Milwau-
kee Saturday. 1t is believed he commit
ted suicide. He was a leading physician
and politician.
Mrs. b. :. Smoot. a bride of eight
weeks, committed suicide at Topeka.
Kan, Saturday, by taking a dose of
trough on rats" Her husband is an en-
gineer OF the Atchison, Topeka and SAN
/, ia Fe railroad. She was a beautiful girl
of Il years. Smoot is 36 years old She
| had in her pocket at the time of her death
| the photograph of a young man to whom
l she was at one time engaged.
\ frightful cyclone passed over the
West Virginia Panhandle. on Friday, the
first ever witnessed in that part of the
country. 1t wrought terrible devastation
in the country extending from st. Glars
4 vile. o.. 10 miles west of Wheeling. to a
point as far east as that city. Little dam
age was done at Wheeling on account of
: the high hills surrounding. but at st.
: Clairsville and Martins Ferry hundreds
= of houses were destroyed or damaged and
many people injured. The loss in these
e two villages will be nearly half a million,
e The snow-storm of Monday was very
heavy and widespread. In the lower
Connecticut valley it began about II
o'clock in the morning and continued til
nightfall, covering the ground to the
depth of three or four inches. The fal
l. was heavy in the Hudson river valley
and in the section about Scranton, Pa.
e reached 10 inches. The storm visited the
West Sunday, and in Kansas, Nebrask;
=. and western Missouri was one of rain
IN III Nv So ' NtliNN -.
h snow that covered the ground to the deptl
q of 10 inches. Wheat crops and buddin!
=, fruit trees in that section were consider
% ably damaged.
e Six persons were killed while viewing
the wreck of a freight train on the Chi
~ cagO and Northwestern railroad nea
n Palatine, H., the other day, by the burst
\ ting of a large water tank, and two wer
n were seriously injured. 1t is supposed
N that the collision of the freight trains il
n the immediate vicinity in the mornin;
ing had Jared the immense tank contain
ing 100, 900 gallons of water, and ~loosene'
or cracked the hoops, which gave wa
=, while a large crowd of country peopl
g were standing Immediately under tn
- structure. Two boys and four men wer
,f killed outright.
10 j. W. Middleton, with his two sons
10 went to the woods to fell some trees nea
Austin. Ind. Friday. They selected a YER
, large tree, and began %chopping until
DtSuD 10 lolltI. W ilti TIE NOTu was give
-, to run. The two boys retired, and whe
:. they had reached a place of safety the.
turned to look, and saw their father wit
folded arms standing directly under tn
l. falling tree. The young men were 5
10 frightened that they left the woods /
great haste and gave the alarm. Tn
log was rolled away, but only a pile o
+ blood-bespattered clothes, flesh and bone
Ill was found. Mr.. Middleton was a deacO
IL in the Methodist church.
" FOREIGN.
" Two rich residents of Montreal hav
:. decided to give S50O,O00 each to foun
and endow in that city a hospital, /
o. honor of Queen Victoria's jubilee.
ID Early in the week heavy snow-storm
o,l b;tta. nolI xraathar pra,ailad in th